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Offline JPRI

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Odd Plier-Wrench - help identify
« on: August 21, 2017, 07:14:05 PM »
Picked this up in Maine.  Not in Schulz or Cope books.  Couldn't find a marking, but haven't cleaned the gunk yet.  7-1/2"L.  Anyone know the maker? thanks

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Re: Odd Plier-Wrench - help identify
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2017, 08:12:13 PM »
Looks familiar, Bob might know.  He'll be around presently.
You might say I have a tool collecting problem....

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Re: Odd Plier-Wrench - help identify
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2017, 08:23:25 PM »
Another tool friend of mine identified it in record time.  Patent 1163532 by T. Hand, 12/7/1915

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Re: Odd Plier-Wrench - help identify
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2017, 08:50:10 PM »
  Stan may want to put the picture in DATAMP.

  DATAMP listed it as not known to have been made. 

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Re: Odd Plier-Wrench - help identify
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2017, 12:38:30 PM »
I've been busy the last few days with "eclipse path of  totality" & aftermath -- the tool was Kilborn & Bishop combination wrench -- advertised in the early 1920s. (see pg. 30 of Sept. 2009 MVWC Newsletter).  Thanks for the patent number.

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Re: Odd Plier-Wrench - help identify
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2017, 05:44:39 PM »
thanks Stan...so have a few of these surfaced?

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Re: Odd Plier-Wrench - help identify
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2017, 04:06:22 PM »
thanks Stan...so have a few of these surfaced?
Just a few; it has come to my attention only a couple of times.